Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Why Research and Innovation Are Vital for Southern European Economies—and Eurozone Survival
Austerity measures have battered the region and created instability throughout the Eurozone. Here’s one way out of the mess.
The Big Questions Are Back
Can Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?
“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
Once again, an out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale
America’s Rising, Invisible Debt
Why it’s time to repeal the debt ceiling and replace it with a ‘truth in borrowing’ act
How “Shareholder Value” is Killing Innovation
The prevailing stock market ideology enriches value extractors, not value creators
Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?
As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow noted in 1987, computers are “everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Since then, the so-called productivity paradox has become ever more striking. Automation has eliminated many jobs. Robots and artificial intelligence now seem to promise (or threaten) yet more radical change. Yet productivity growth has slowed across the advanced economies; in Britain, labor is no more productive today than it was in 2007.
We’ll Always Need Paris
e-Book Launch: Can Dependency Theory Explain Our World Today?
Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) has released a new e-book, “Conversations on Dependency Theory”
The Hidden Cost of Privatization
Why some goods and services should stay in the public domain
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
A new book by economist Peter Temin finds that the U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds
Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge
“The humility to accept that economic propositions cannot be universal would save us from self-defeating arrogance.” Economist Amit Bhaduri adds his perspective to our Experts on Trial discussion.
The Moral Burden on Economists
Which Productivity Puzzle?
The Mechanical Turn in Economics and Its Consequences
In the age of Adam Smith, an economics that masqueraded as natural science and excluded the human condition actually suited the interests of the landed and the wealthy